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Gregory Mone
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This Sunday at 6:30 EDT, in advance of the 101st anniversary of the ship's demise, I'll be hosting an online interactive chat about Titanic through a very cool new platform called shindig. It's pretty simple. When you sign in, the page turns into a beautiful library, and my bearded mug sits in a medium-sized window in the middle. I'll have some slides in another little window next to me as I t...
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Fish
— published 2010 — 3 editions |
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Dangerous Waters: An Adventure on the Titanic
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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The Truth about Santa: Wormholes, Robots, and What Really Happens on Christmas Eve
— published 2009 — 5 editions |
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The Wages of Genius
— published 2003 — 4 editions |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Gregory Mone (Goodreads Author) , Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author), Gregory Mone (Goodreads Author) — published 2010 — 44 editions |
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| Incredibly funny and absurd, and a great mind-meld by author and illustrator. I love how Barnett works in a few science lessons and facts about blue whales without turning pedantic. The facts flow out of arguments, conversations, etc. It's surprising...more | |
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| Loved the richness and complexity of the world. The scene in which the flying ship docks alongside others at the massive tree, and the characters make their way down through the tree to the ground, might have taken up several chapters in another writ...more | |
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| Incredible book. I read this once in my teens and remember loving the passages about the trees, the water, the rain, and those sections struck me again years later. This is a really enormous novel, more in terms of scope than actual page length, but...more | |
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| A great book for any writer. Queneau proves that there are so many ways to tell the same story. The characters and events and setting don't have to change at all. By tweaking the form or style or perspective or the weight of the different elements, y...more | |
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| A thin but grand novel. I really enjoyed the shifting narrative perspective - he jumps from one character to the next but you never lose hold of the central story. The ending was really wonderful, too, especially how it all circled back to the start....more | |
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| This book is proof that you don't need complex plots and cliff-hangers and capers to create a page-turner. Tolstoy draws you along from chapter to chapter by making you fall in love with his characters instead of luring you with what-happens-next-typ...more | |
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“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.”
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury
― Ray Bradbury
“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
